-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:13 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?
Timo Neuvonen wrote:
# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-drm-nouveau = 10 is needed by xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_6
you can't use RPMs built for a different OS distribution,
you'd need to
take the SRPM and rebuild/recompile it.
Aren't the dependencies still the same? I think they are explicitly spesified in the spec file of the source rpm?
out of general curiosity, I did some poking around the Nouveau project wiki. In short order, I learned..
A) its still highly experimental and very incomplete.
B) it has three components, a 2D driver, a 3D driver, and a kernel driver. you need to build all three together for your target OS.
Install the RPM Forge Repo. For CentOS 5 would be: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386. rpm rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm yum install dkms --enablerepo=*\rpmforge yum install nvidia-dkms --enablerepo=*\rpmforge Your xorg config file will get updated also, I have never heard of "nouveau".
JohnStanley